SPAM use of my Web Site

My personal Site cheesequake.us is being used to send many emails vending Viagra, etc. They use an originating address as follows; ( email@removed )

I am having much difficulty trying to stop this unauthorized use. My site address is associated with yahoo.com, however, the abuser is not using Yahoo, thus all failed mail reverts to me via the above email address.

I tried accessing some of the ISP addresses listed on the return mail, however, the sites all time out.

I can ID the SPAM originator as http://lostrich.cn/support.php a Canadian Pharmacy firm. Of course, they do not answer my emails, and I don't know their email SPAM provider.

How do I a Telecommunications dinosaur function in the internet World.

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Here's a couple of ideas that might help you dig out of your
current debacle:

Step 1:
Change your email password to something more complex (FYI: the
SPAMers are probably not directly accessing your Yahoo webmail
account by logging in using your password, but itâ€™s always a
good idea to change your password to something longer e.g. more
complex as a first step, just in case).

Hereâ€™s another link to check out (it talks about your
particular situation in more detail and offers a possible
solution that Yahoo is trying to help put into place):
http://antispam.http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys/domainkeys

A few quick facts:

Just so you know, your domain name (cheesequake.us) has both a
website (www.www.cheesequake.us) and an email account
(name{at}cheesequake{dot}us) associated with it. Keep in mind
that your email and your website are two separate things.

The SPAMers may have found your domain name through your website,
but theyâ€™ve likely just grabbed your domain name and are using
it to spoof (falsify) the â€œFromâ€ address in their SPAM email
messages. This can be done completely outside of Yahooâ€™s
infrastructure.

Itâ€™s a relatively trivial thing to spoof the â€œFromâ€ field
in an email address (itâ€™s just as easy as writing a bogus
return address on a paper letter). In fact, if we stick with
this analogy, itâ€™s even very simple for malicious users to
spoof the letterâ€™s postmark (or originating email server in
this case) as well.

Simply hardening your email serverâ€™s security (or asking Yahoo
to do this since your service is hosted) may not fix the
problem. This is due to the fact that itâ€™s likely the SPAMers
are not going through Yahooâ€™s servers to send the SPAM
(theyâ€™re just using your domain name in vain).

Since your website is a personal site (not an e-commerce site),
you might want to consider reducing your level of visibility.
This includes removing yourself from the Yahoo directory,
removing the default â€œPowered by Yahoo Web Hostingâ€ link
from your website, removing or obfuscating your email address
(sasebo{dot}crypto{at}verizon{dot}net) from your website, and
other similar tactics to reduce the chances of someone targeting
your domain name for illegal purposes. This tactic is often
referred to as security-through-obscurity.

If youâ€™re indeed the victim of email spoofing thatâ€™s being
conducted outside of your web-hostâ€™s infrastructure, then
thereâ€™s really nothing much that can be done aside from
reporting the abuse and hoping for the best. In the worst case
scenario, your domain will become black-listed as a SPAM source
and youâ€™ll need to contact standard black-listing (AKA Black
hole lists) agencies on the Internet and request that your
domain name be removed because it was used fraudulently.

When it comes to email spoofingâ€¦an ounce of prevention (e.g.
less visibility on the Internet) is worth a pound of cure.

Dear donald,
I trace out the spammers web site, it's registered on a Chinese
domain host. Below is the information. First try to report of
abuse on email@removed . The web site is hosting on this domain
http://www.pharokufuma.com so drop another e-mail. If you don't
get any feedback. Then register a complain to
http://www.icann.org/ so that they banned the domain and web
hosting companies. Also if you have any other victims of such
abuse then asked him/her to do same. if more pepole will report
it then hopefully ICANN will take action.

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